Trucking Industry

Trends Include Financing and Factoring for the Trucking Industry When trends are mentioned in the news, it is generally in the context of fashion, food or technology. While fashion and food may not be relevant in the trucking industry, technology...

Factoring Solutions and Fuel Management Programs on the Rise Technology is responsible for disrupting almost every industry in the world and while disruption might sound like a bad thing, the trends prove otherwise. Recently the world cheered as Elon Musk...

Detention is a big topic in the trucking industry now, thanks in part to greater use of ELDs that put delays at shippers and receivers on record, and to a recent U.S. DOT report from the Office of the Inspector...

More than 30 years ago, the Harvard Business Review published a paper that detailed the five stages of small business growth and the challenges that owners faced at each point. Business experts in multiple fields still cite that paper because...

For years the trucking industry has been wringing its collective hands over a coming driver shortage. With a significant percentage of truckers getting close to retirement age and fewer young people choosing to join the industry, a frightening gap between...

An astonishing amount of change has taken place in trucking in a pretty short amount of time. There are fleet owners who can recall their driving days, when they had to muscle through without power steering. Just ten years ago,...

With the New Year upon us and a busy year in trucking behind, let’s take a brief journey back into the headlines that dominated 2017. Electronic Logging Device Mandate The biggest trucking story of the year was the ELD mandate....

For the past few years, people in the trucking industry worried about a driver shortage and about the impact of the ELD mandate on productivity. Now, with freight volume rising, both of those issues contribute to what appears to be...

(photo credit) A lot of truckers spend the holidays on the road, but that doesn’t mean they leave the Christmas spirit behind. Plenty of drivers spread joy in any way they can — from stringing festive lights on their rigs...

When a truck driver decides to make the move to owner-operator, one of the biggest changes they must make is in their perspective. The change does more than cut out “the man” who controlled your work destiny, though that often...